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Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Re: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Post by primigenus »

curiously wrote: post #60

my gripes with meteor are: not sure how ddp works or how to scale a meteor app. does not work with postgresql or any other db. The biggest issue for me is the tight coupling to MongoDB. Background: we used Meteor back in mid 2013. we ended up wasting a lot of time and resources because we had to learn everything. when we did, it did not perform so well, over 1MB going back and forth for what could've been achieved wi…

DDP is very simple. Think of it like REST for websockets. Here is the project page: https://www.meteor.com/ddp and here is the spec: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/ddp/DDP.... If you have any questions, post them on forums.meteor.com and we'll try to help you out.

It's not "tightly coupled" to MongoDB; Mongo is simply the only database that livequery (https://www.meteor.com/livequery) has implemented support for at the moment. There are community projects for MySQL and PostgreSQL, as well as partially complete drivers for Redis and Elastic. Official (My)SQL support is on the roadmap and will probably appear later this year.

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Post by DigitalSea »

debaserab2 wrote: post #55
DigitalSea wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I have seen the tooling is definitely great. I am not the worlds biggest fan of Ruby on Rails, but one aspect I have always liked is the scaffolding. Being able to generate the skeleton of an application from the command line without needing to glue anything together or read documentation on multiple plugins. Don't get me wrong, I love working with React.js, but it isn't a framework and aspects like dealing…

I have a hard time understanding how meteor is comparable to angular or ember given that it appears to be full stack in every way, whereas angular or ember I can add to my existing stack. Meteor has always seemed interesting but the fact that it is hosted makes it a non starter. There's too many scaling questions that a marketing site will never put me at ease, I'll need to see some solid case studies and ideally a c…

You can choose to use Meteor's hosting or you can do it yourself. There is a great open source Product Hunt/Hacker News clone application built on Meteor called Telescope - http://www.telesc.pe/ - I am self hosting it for a site that I run about Javascript, I haven't needed to do anything except styling tweaks, but it is running on a simple DigitalOcean VPS quite fine.

Re: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Post by gaplus »

vinceyuan wrote: post #46
gaplus wrote: post #28

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My custom packaging startup Packlane ( http://packlane.com ) uses Meteor. Really grateful for this update since the old Mongo version had some major issues.

It cost me more than 30 seconds to load your website at the first time.

thanks for letting me know - is it better now? I just enabled oplog.

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Post by primigenus »

gaplus wrote: post #28
callmeed wrote: post #3

I'm curious what startups or big companies are using Meteor in production

My custom packaging startup Packlane ( http://packlane.com ) uses Meteor. Really grateful for this update since the old Mongo version had some major issues.

The reason your site is taking long to load is because you have multiple >1MB assets. Open up the Chrome inspector and look at the network tab. You're loading 7.7MB, 7.3MB of which are images. There are two gifs that are over 2MB in size. You should reduce the size of them to 200KB at most, and also consider delaying loading images that are below the initial viewport until the user needs to see them. I also recommend compressing all of your jpg's and using a tool like ImageOptim to strip out any extraneous data.

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Post by bmajz »

maxharris wrote: post #63
bmajz wrote: post #12

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Definitely my biggest current beef with Meteor. It seems technically possible and I understand why they would go with Mongo first, so hopefully its just a matter of time.

Ben (the guy in the video) is working on SQL support! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzulpXZn6g Here's a follow-up talk he did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSI68J9wNJ0 Also, there's prototype-grade support for Redis: https://github.com/meteor/redis-livedata And that's just the beginning. There are lots more databases that will follow: https://www.meteor.com/full-stack-db-drivers

That's great!

Re: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Post by primigenus »

DigitalSea wrote: post #26
lordbusiness wrote: post #20

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The tooling is where Meteor really shines. I must admit I found React to be quite cumbersome to get off the ground, in contrast Meteor is pure bliss. It hasn't all been roses; I've had plenty of obstacles to overcome as I've learnt the framework, its capabilities and its limitations, but the community has been helpful and I can honestly say that working with Meteor is on the whole very slick. https://atmospherejs.com…

From what I have seen the tooling is definitely great. I am not the worlds biggest fan of Ruby on Rails, but one aspect I have always liked is the scaffolding. Being able to generate the skeleton of an application from the command line without needing to glue anything together or read documentation on multiple plugins. Don't get me wrong, I love working with React.js, but it isn't a framework and aspects like dealing…

Here's how to integrate React with Meteor: https://github.com/reactjs/react-meteor

A talk demoing it: https://youtu.be/puoD7b4Ow7k

Here's how to integrate AngularJS with Meteor: https://github.com/Urigo/angular-meteor

A talk demoing it: https://youtu.be/s6IgKYsZAyI

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Post by primigenus »

bunkydoo wrote: post #64

I've been working with meteor since 0.6.3 and I have had only great experiences with it. I've been going to the meetups in my area which has brought me together with a great community of developers from all sorts of backgrounds - and even connected me with people from across the world via webcast. Nothing but good vibes and support in this community. I saw someone commented with the Discover Meteor book link, and tha…

Can I ask which meetup you've been attending? We (the organizers of such meetups) would love to hear where you're having a great time!

Re: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Post by gaplus »

primigenus wrote: post #74
gaplus wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My custom packaging startup Packlane ( http://packlane.com ) uses Meteor. Really grateful for this update since the old Mongo version had some major issues.

The reason your site is taking long to load is because you have multiple >1MB assets. Open up the Chrome inspector and look at the network tab. You're loading 7.7MB, 7.3MB of which are images. There are two gifs that are over 2MB in size. You should reduce the size of them to 200KB at most, and also consider delaying loading images that are below the initial viewport until the user needs to see them. I also recommend…

Just deployed a new version of the app with optimized images. Thanks so much for the thorough, constructive feedback.

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Post by sgdesign »

bunkydoo wrote: post #64

I've been working with meteor since 0.6.3 and I have had only great experiences with it. I've been going to the meetups in my area which has brought me together with a great community of developers from all sorts of backgrounds - and even connected me with people from across the world via webcast. Nothing but good vibes and support in this community. I saw someone commented with the Discover Meteor book link, and tha…

Thanks for the kind words :)

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Post by skrebbel »

jeff_marshall wrote: post #70
DigitalSea wrote: post #10

I think I might give Meteor a shot. For a long time I have been working with AngularJS and Node.js. Recently I have been working exclusively with React.js + Flux and Node.js to build isomorphic web applications. I like the fact Meteor is isomorphic by default and comes with everything you need. I have always somewhat seen it as this outlier, a great looking framework but lacking the same vocality that Facebook and Go…

could you explain what isomorphic means in this context? what set is mapped to another set? what meaning for the set is maintained?

Isomorphic is the word some Airbnb people picked to mean "web app that can render html on the server and the client". Everybody hated the word, but nobody came up with something better so it stuck :)
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